"By taking us back to the origins of the Sawtelle family, Wroblewski has set a story-telling bonfire as enthralling in its pages as it is illuminating of our fragile and complicated humanity. Familiaris is as expansive and enlightening a saga as have ever been written." —Tom Hanks

"David [Wroblewski] takes us on an extraordinary journey that brilliantly interweaves history, philosophy, adventure and mysticism to explore the meaning of love, friendship and living your life’s true purpose." —Oprah Winfrey

"A great American novel of people and passions and ideas —and, of course, dogs. . . . For all the eons it may take to read it, this colossus of a book will own you." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"'Suppose you could do one impossible thing,' John Sawtelle says in David Wroblewski's stunning new novel Familiaris. What would you do? Clearly, what the author would do and has done is write this impossibly wise, impossibly ambitious, impossibly beautiful book." —Richard Russo, author of the North Bath trilogy

"Tender, ambitious, fierce, deeply human and of course wonderfully canine, David Wroblewski's second novel is an American tour de force. There were moments when reading that I thought of Russo, Irving, Strout, McCarthy, Gilbert and then just Wroblewski himself. A story spun out over generations, to be read for generations, this is a big brave book that is old-fashioned in the very best sense of the word." —Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin

"David Wroblewski is one of the few contemporary authors who can create a world that the reader doesn’t merely visit but fully inhabits. And what a world it is, rich with love and joy and heartbreak. And wonder, especially in the way human and canine form inseparable bonds. It has been a long wait for a new Wroblewski novel. The wait is worth it."—Ron Rash, author of Serena and The Caretaker

"No writer understands the depths of dogs’ natures the way David Wroblewski does, and once again we have a vital, absorbing and remarkable fiction fueled by this understanding. Familiaris is a rare novel, modest and epic." —Joan Silber, National Book Award finalist and author of National Book Critics Circle and Pen Faulkner winners Improvement and Lucky Us